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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






2. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






3. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






4. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






5. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






6. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






7. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






8. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






9. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






10. Academic Language Therapy Association






11. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






12. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






13. Wide Range Achievement Test






14. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






15. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






16. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






17. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






18. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






19. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






20. Closed syllable






21. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






22. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






23. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






24. Multisensory Structured Language






25. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






26. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






27. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






28. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






29. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






30. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






31. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






32. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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33. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






34. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






35. Final stable syllable

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36. Individual Educational Plan






37. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






38. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






39. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






40. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






41. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






42. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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43. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






44. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






45. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






46. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






47. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






48. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






49. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






50. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example







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